Jared Camins-Esakov

Brooklyn College Library internship reflection

jcamins — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:18:44 +0000

This past week I completed an internship in the Information Services department at the Brooklyn College Library. I worked on a number of projects, but the two main ones were a Russian-language instructional video for ESL students and a poster on copyright for a poster session associated with Brooklyn College Faculty Day, an interdisciplinary conference for faculty and staff at Brooklyn College.

Conference presentation at MASC

jcamins — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:57:01 +0000

I will be presenting a paper entitled “The English Self-Tutor: or, an Easy Method for Understanding the Nineteenth-Century Book Trade” at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference of the AAASS at Swarthmore on March 20.

Talk at Exeter College

jcamins — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:55:04 +0000

At 5:30pm on Thursday, November 6 I will be giving a talk at Exeter College entitled “A librarian in Afghanistan: black tie and combat boots” on my experiences as a librarian in Afghanistan.

The talk will be held in the Rector’s Upstairs Drawing Room at Exeter College on Turl Street. All are welcome and there is no need to RSVP.

Talk at the Bodleian

jcamins — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:47:20 +0000

At 10am on Wednesday, November 5, I will be giving a talk entitled “Lessons from Afghanistan: what the Bodleian can learn from Afghan libraries” about some of the problems faced by libraries in Afghanistan.

The talk will be in the Seminar Room (Room 132) in the New Bodleian on Parks Road. All members of the Oxford University are welcome, but please RSVP, as visitors to the Bodleian require require an escort.